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A minute's silence was held at the beginning as a mark of respect for those who died and those whose lives were changed by the loss of family and friends. Grenfell Tower's owners and managers were widely criticised after the June blaze because they had allowed a refurbishment using flammable cladding which helped the flames spread.

On Wednesday, South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission said it had detected traces of radioactive xenon gas from the nuclear test. The seismic activity, they say, is a result of North Korea's sixth nuclear test September 3. "The significance of this is that it has the potential to dramatically increase the threat posed by" its ballistic missiles. "No way... A use of military force, but that would result in a second Korean war".

Mr Trump earlier met with federal and state leaders in Fort Myers, where he was brimming with enthusiasm for the state and federal response effort. Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert said the planning for the president's trip was done in concert with Florida Gov.

An estimated 380,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled Myanmar and reached Bangladesh after a crackdown by Myanmarese security forces in response to an attack on a military outpost by Rohingya militants on August 25. Between 2012 and 2015, more than 112,000 made a unsafe escape to Malaysia by boats across the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. "It's a first step, but the council needs to escalate this to the level that a crisis that bears the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing deserves", ...

The ministry said all the targets were destroyed. The country has repeatedly fired salvos of such missiles, from both the sea and mainland Russian Federation. The U.S-led coalition struck the road the convoy was traveling on, leaving it stranded in the desert for about two weeks, though some vehicles were able to slip into militant-held territory.

That also was the second consecutive year of a decline in the nation's poverty rate. The poverty rate dropped to 12.7 percent in 2016 from 13.5 percent in 2015.  The Gini index was 0.481 in 2016; the change from 2015 was not statistically significant. "The nation's still sky-high poverty is a human-made disaster of epic proportions", said Joel Berg, CEO of Hunger Free America.